Jaxon's first day of kindergarten was september 16th. He started a week later than he should have because of the teacher's strike. I was fine with prolonging my heartbreak, but he was VERY disappointed to have to wait even longer! The first day was only an hour or so long assessment to see which of the 2 kindergarten classes he'd be in, but we called that his first day.
Boomer had to get in on a first day pic. I seriously think I have the cutest little boys ever!
Mrs.Udo is his teacher. She is VERY experienced and super great with the kids. She even plays the ukelele!! It's kind of funny...Jason went to school with Mrs.Udo's son, my cousin's sister in law is one of the office ladies and I had the principal as a student teacher for a semester when i was a freshman in high school 14 years ago and he actually remembered me. It is a small world, indeed!
Okay, so here's the first funny story about kindergarten. Monday, the 20th (my birthday) was his first full day at school. we dropped him off in the morning and he just waved bye and never looked back. It was VERY sad and i had to hold back my tears, but I really am thankful that he's so independent and isn't one of the kids who can't let go. (i'm pretty sure it'll be the complete opposite with boomer). Anyway... Jason took that day off, being such a big day and all. He took me shopping for shoes and kept me occupied enough to not break down all day. Finally it's time to pick up Jax, which was supposed to be the highlight of my day. Well, it didn't quite turn out that way.
We go to the office where the kindergarteners are to wait for their parents to get them, and he's not there! Panic ALMOST set in, but the classroom helper told me to just go out to the buses where the teacher physically makes sure each and every one of them gets on the bus. sure enough, he's out there. I catch up to Mrs. Udo first and tell her Jax isn't a bus kid. she says, "okay, i'll take him off my list, just go ahead and take him". sigh of relief. I go over to Jax and grab his hand and say, "c'mon jax, lets go home." His shoulders melt and his chin starts to quiver, "but i wanted to ride the bus..." i try to tell him, no daddy and boomer are waiting inside for us. he still wants to ride. I try to call Jason's cell to tell him to come out and help me reason with jax, no answer, left it in the car. I ask him, "are you POSITIVE you want to ride the bus today?"/
"what does positive mean, mama?" /" it means are you very sure?!"/ "YES!!!"
so i have to decide who's heart gets broken today. his on his first real day of kindergarten or mine on my birthday? guess who won??
you better believe we stalked that bus the whole way home!
here we are doing his first homework. We're a bit worried about it, and hope his schoolwork catches up with him. one of his homework assignments is to count forward from 0-10. really? this kid can count to 10 by twos and to 100 by tens or fives. he's great at simple math and even told jason the other day what half of ten was! he's brilliant and i'm sure they'll start an advanced kindergarten class just for him! j/k but we do hope he won't be bored.
currently jax is on restriction (by us) from the bus, until he can prove that he can listen to us and follow our directions because he WOULD NOT get off the bus on thursday. My big ol' pregnant self had to get on the bus and physically carry him off. All the while he's kicking and screaming and grabbing everything he can to stop me. Then drag him a block and carry him another block home! NOT an easy task!! Later, when we had our talk about consequences for your actions he told me he just wanted to ride the bus all the way to our house, not realizing that the bus doesn't stop in front of everyone's house.
